Narrow the grounds for technical violations and require review before revocation.
Multiple participants described both a perception and a pattern: that technical violations and revocations are not, in practice, used to protect public safety. Technical violations are a well-documented pathway of back-end sentencing through which individuals are returned to custody without committing a new offense. Agencies should standardize what counts as a technical violation, require supervisory review before any revocation referral, and audit revocation patterns by officer to identify outliers.
Part B: Routine, Non-Disaster Recommendations
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In 2024, A Participant In an interview stated:
Five people come home, they gotta find at least five people. They gotta find people to send back to fill the beds, which is bad.”
Consider if you are a:
corrections/supervisory agencies